What is Knowledge and social structure

Learning is acquiring new or
modifying existing href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge">knowledge, title="Behavior" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior">behaviors,
skills, title="Value (personal and cultural)"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_%28personal_and_cultural%29">values,
or href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference">preferences and may involve
synthesizing different types of href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information">information..Human learning
may occur as part of href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education">education, title="Personal development"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_development">personal
development, school or href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training">training. It may be title="Goal-oriented"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal-oriented">goal-oriented and may be
aided by href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation">motivation. The study of how
learning occurs is part of href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychology">neuropsychology, title="Educational psychology"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_psychology">educational
psychology, href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_theory_%28education%29">learning
theory, and href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy">pedagogy. Learning may occur
as a result of href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habituation">habituation or title="Classical conditioning"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning">classical
conditioning, Learning may occur href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscious">consciously or without
conscious awareness. Knowledge acquisition involves complex href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition">cognitive processes:
perception, learning, communication, association and reasoning; while knowledge is also
said to be related to the capacity of acknowledgment in human
beings. href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge#cite_note-1">[2]

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social structure is socially embodied in the actions, thoughts, beliefs, and durable
dispositions of individual human beings. A social structure is effective in organizing
behavior of large numbers of actors. A structure is coercive of individual and group
behavior. A social structure assigns roles and powers to individual actors. A social
structure often has distributive consequences for individuals and groups. A social
structure is geographically dispersed. Social structures can cause social outcomes
involving both persistence and change.

The meaning of
"social structure" differs between various fields of href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology">sociology. On the title="Macrosociology"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrosociology">macro scale, it can
refer to the system of socioeconomic href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stratification">stratification
(e.g., the class structure), href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_institutions">social
institutions, or, other patterned relations between large social groups. On
the meso scale, it can refer to the structure of href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network">social network ties
between individuals or organizations. On the micro scale, it can refer to the way title="Norm (sociology)"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_%28sociology%29">norms shape the
behavior of actors within the social system.